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Shu Ha Ri for CX?

Having spent a lot of time in education—corporately doing plenty of L&D work, having had lots of clients delivering workshops and such, and of course as a professor—I’m intrigued by how folks learn.  What’s lost on a lot of educators, unfortunately, I’ve found, is the purpose of education in the first place. Now, I don’t [...]

By |2024-10-15T14:23:56+00:00October 15th, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Leadership|0 Comments

No, I don’t want to log in

I recently had a ridiculous interaction with one of our household service providers.  I had a general question about one of their policies and went online to check out their FAQs to see if I could get an answer.  A usual pet-peeve of mine, that endeavor was fruitless (whoever determines which questions are “frequently” asked [...]

By |2024-08-20T13:54:33+00:00August 20th, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on No, I don’t want to log in

Getting CX Right: Copper Mountain Resort

I posted about this way back when it happened, but I’m enjoying working from the mountains these past couple weeks, so the experience is in mind, and I figure it’s worth drawing your attention to it in a more formal manner: Copper Mountain ski resort in Summit County, Colorado, is my mountain.  I love it, [...]

By |2024-08-06T14:29:00+00:00August 6th, 2024|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Getting CX Right, VoC|Comments Off on Getting CX Right: Copper Mountain Resort

Maybe you don’t need CX

Customer Experience is a very important part of advancing your brand.  In fact, as I like to say, CX is the delivery of your brand.  When you think about your Brand Promise, your Marketing team spends a lot of time and energy developing and designing it. It turns to the CX function in your organization [...]

By |2024-07-23T15:06:37+00:00July 23rd, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Getting CX Right, Leadership|Comments Off on Maybe you don’t need CX

Your Customers have figured it out. Have you?

My local grocer has a problem.  All of us who shop there are aware of it, and even compensate for it.  But it doesn’t seem that they even realize it. Ours is a pretty urban location in the midst of a university neighborhood.  Sure, there are a few families with their 2.3 children each, but [...]

By |2024-06-11T14:51:41+00:00June 11th, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, VoC|Comments Off on Your Customers have figured it out. Have you?

System problems and policy problems

I’ve been thinking lately about what causes CX to go south.  Well, okay, I do that a lot anyway. Naturally, considering my Framework, I concentrate a lot of my efforts on identifying processes and systems that are causing misalignment with a Brand Promise.  After all, as I’ve written previously, CX is really just an excuse [...]

By |2024-05-28T15:22:31+00:00May 28th, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Process Engineering|Comments Off on System problems and policy problems

Small Print or Bigger Person

Your mom may have told you to always read the fine print.  Or maybe it was a college professor or something along those lines.  If you’ve ever interacted with an attorney of course you’re familiar with the admonition. By and large that’s always a great idea, even when working with a trusted and Customer-centric brand.  [...]

By |2024-05-14T13:40:56+00:00May 14th, 2024|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on Small Print or Bigger Person

Communication is cheaper

I recently had to return a pair of shoes I’d purchased online.  I realized immediately when I tried them on just after they were delivered that the size was wrong.  Fortunately, the return process was super simple from a Customer’s perspective:  The company had included a return label that I could slap right on the [...]

By |2024-04-30T14:33:44+00:00April 30th, 2024|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on Communication is cheaper

Customer screw-ups are your fault

Some of your Customers are idiots. Hey, full disclosure, that includes me. In fact, in some circles, I’m known as the “LCD,” or least-common denominator.  As the joke goes, Z is the dimmest bulb in the group, and as such, if I get something, everybody should be able to understand it. Self-deprecation aside, the much-more-straight-faced point [...]

By |2024-04-16T14:56:33+00:00April 16th, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Process Engineering|Comments Off on Customer screw-ups are your fault

They’re already robots

All the rage these days in Contact Center online webinars and consortia is the topic of automation and “AI”… “Bots”, “ChatGPT” (I still don’t understand what that does, but apparently, as far as you know, I’m using it to write this article right now.) The ominous overtone to most of these conversations is that Robots [...]

By |2024-04-02T14:38:16+00:00April 2nd, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on They’re already robots
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